Game Thread: 4/14 Hit Parade @ Rockies Horror Pitcher Show

[Mays-Fan]

1. Denard Span (L) CF
2. Angel Pagan (S) LF
3. Buster Posey (R) C
4. Hunter Pence (R) RF
5. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
6. Matt Duffy (R) 3B
7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
8. Matt Cain (R) P
9. Kelby Tomlinson (R) 2B

 

[calsnowskier]

9-2 is FAST!!

 

[calsnowskier]

Nice that UPS gets the bench. He only had 2 hits yesterday. The bum.

 

[Mays-Fan]

1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Trevor Story (R) SS
3. Carlos Gonzalez (L) RF
4. Nolan Arenado (R) 3B
5. Gerardo Parra (L) CF
6. Mark Reynolds (R) 1B
7. Ben Paulsen (L) LF
8. Tony Wolters (L) C
9. Jorge De La Rosa (L) P

Gametime Forecast: 72°F • Partly Cloudy • 8% PoP

 

[SFGRTB]

De La Rosa versus Cain, feels like I'm watching a game from 2008 or something

 

[SFGRTB]

Movement away and out of the zone from Story seems to be the trick.

 

[Mays-Fan]

Cain looks good so far at least on GameDay. He hit 93 to get that last strikeout on Reynolds. Mixing his pitches and locations well.

 

[SFGRTB]

Cain looks good so far at least on GameDay. He hit 93 to get that last strikeout on Reynolds. Mixing his pitches and locations well.

Indeed. He's gotten K's on his cutter, changeup, and fastball so far.

 

[SFGRTB]

That's fine, let De La Rosa run around a little bit.

 

[SFGRTB]

De La Rosa has always been a terrible get-away-day pitcher.

 

[calsnowskier]

It is unfortunate that the one player without a legit backup is the one player REALLY getting off to a bad start this year...

 

[Mays-Fan]

Cain becoming a nice upside surprise. Get him some more runs, guys.

 

[calsnowskier]

Cain becoming a nice upside surprise. Get him some more runs, guys.

It is early, but I really like what I see from him so far.

Extra reason why I am not concerned in the slightest for Peavy. We have Heston, Stratton, Mejia and Blach basically ready now and Beede possibly ready by the ASB to take a rotation slot.

#stronglink

 

[Mays-Fan]

Ugh.

So not only do we make him a pitching star out of nowhere, we make him a Silver Slugger as well.

 

[Stokes1931]

Let teh meltdown commence.

 

[Stokes1931]

Cain suddenly cannot get an out.

Our bats have suddenly decided to take the day off.

No bueno.

 

[SFGRTB]

Interesting decision to pitch Heston in a day game after a night game. Didn't pay off.

Where have the bats gone?

I hate this stupid ballpark.

 

[calsnowskier]

I step away from the game for just a few mins and...

Jeebus.

 

[Stokes1931]

1 freaking hit??!? Areyoukiddingme?

 

[tzill]

one word, and it rhymes with "mittglow"